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Enzyme asks: Have you ever been arrested? Been thrown down the stairs by the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, with hi-LAR-ious consequences? Or maybe you're a member of the police force with chortlesome anecdotes about particularly stupid people you've encountered.
Do tell.

(, Thu 5 May 2011, 18:42)
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Bezirksverordnetenversammlungenwahl?
Should it not be: Bezirksverordnetenversammlungswahl??

Those crazy germans and their Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

Edit: I used "there" instead of "their". What a knob!
(, Mon 9 May 2011, 17:09, 1 reply)
Nope
It's one Versammlung per Bezirk, and with -n endings you don't need a joining particle under the new spelling rules. I am being somewhat of a dick by making it as long as I can, though. The official name is split into two.

Kill me.
(, Mon 9 May 2011, 17:29, closed)
Thou shalt live!
I was dead against the Rechtschreibreform in the first place... took me fucking ages to get the bloody language right in the first place and then them damn lefties come in an change it all GRRRR... Anyway, I claim ignorance!I learned the language in Starnberg. We do things differently in Bayern!
(, Mon 9 May 2011, 17:43, closed)
Afraid I don't speak any German.
What are these intriguingly long words?
(, Mon 9 May 2011, 22:07, closed)
Not so easy to translate
The more sub-words there are the harder it is to distill down to exactly what they mean, but:

Donau dampf schiffahrts elektrizitäten haupt betriebswerk bau unter beamten gesellschaft
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Danube steam boating eletrical main depot build sub official society


Or, the association for junior officials of the main electrical servicing depot for steam ships on the Danube. That's a famous contender for longet german word.

Mine was:


Bezirks verordneten versammlungen wahl
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Borough delegate assemblies vote


Parish council elections, which I'm entitled to vote in.

EDIT: Oh. and Rechtschriebreform is Orthographyreform, or the spelling changes they brought in a decade or so ago.
(, Mon 9 May 2011, 23:02, closed)
Thanks. Funnily enough
I remember my fellow pupils who were studying German quoting an example given by their teacher - something like a steam powered mechanical shovel? I guess the need for new terms around the time of the industrial revolution has something to do with it.
(, Tue 10 May 2011, 8:58, closed)

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